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YAKAWLANG, BAMIYAN PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 16, 2003. The MSf team prepare to leave the compound in Yakawlang to drive to the Dagah clinic, an hour drive away. MSf has been operating in Afghanistan for over 20 years. The main challenge to provide healthcare in the remote part of the country is isolation and security.

Browse the latest stories and reports on MSF from various media outlets.

Dr. Tankred Stoebe has just spent one month in Yemen. On NPR's The Takeaway, he discusses the issues still affecting the country. Even with 1,800 aid workers in the country, Doctors Without Borders/Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) continues to face many logistical difficulties. View external media.

9 News interviews Dr. John Lawrence, president of the board of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) about their new exhibition called Forced From Home. Visitors navigate a 10,000-square-foot installation designed to convey some of the challenges confronting a person forced to flee. View External Media

Boulder, Colorado welcomes a new interactive exhibit by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called Forced From Home. With an experienced aid worker as your guide, the exhibit takes visitors behind the headlines about the global refugee crisis to see what MSF workers see when in the field. View External Media

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse and researcher, Chenai Mathabire, received the International Aids Society 2017 TB/HIV Research Prize for research on a rapid tuberculosis (TB) test. View External Media.

Mothers with malnourished babies in conflict zones need access to infant formula, but some international organizations that promote "breastfeeding first" policies only give infant formula by prescription. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides infant formula to mothers upon their request, without the need of a prescription. View external media.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aid worker, Dr. Edward Chu, writes about his recent assignment in Central African Republic, where he served as the medical activities manager in the Bangui General Hospital. View External Media.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical activities manager, Dr Edward Chu, returned home to Arizona from a six-month assignment in Central African Republic where he managed MSF’s trauma unit in the capital, Bangui. It is the only trauma unit in the city, and the referent unit for MSF’s projects all around the country. View External Media.

Following the International AIDS conference, UNAIDS released a report that indicates more than half of the 36.7 million people with HIV have access to treatment for the first time. Despite this encouraging statistic, both HIV and AIDS death rates are increasing in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. NPR spoke with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HIV and TB policy adviser, Sharonann Lynch, about the most recent HIV/AIDS trends.